At the risk of dating myself and start off this column by saying, “You kids don’t remember anything,” I’m getting the sense that we’re not just in a 9/10/01 mindset again, we’re actually worse off than we were the day before the world changed forever.
After 19 foreign jihadists abused our visa system or entered the country illegally, box cutters were the weapon of choice, and the soft underbelly of commercial aviation was exploited to turn four aircraft into guided missiles. The Intel community knew there was an increased threat. There was an idea within at least some parts of our national security apparatus that something bad was up. But the rules in place at the time were that agencies of the federal government that had at least a partial role in our overall national security were not allowed to share intel and coordinate with each other.
9/11, the creation of the Homeland…
